Posts Tagged with ‘Books:Memoir’
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A Soldier on the Southern Front — Italy, WW I
03 Jul 2014World War I brought with it some 10 million combatant deaths, 23 million wounded. Two and one half million non combatants died from fire and…
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A Jail Break Against the Draft
05 May 2014On my way down to spend a week in the Mojave desert I queued up Edward Abby‘s Desert Solitaire on…
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Hidden Battles: War Trauma Across Cultures
10 Feb 2014Hidden Battles is an accomplished documentary bringing us 5 war participants-as-fighters and the years that have followed them: Israeli soldier,…
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Post War Trauma — and Love
10 Feb 2014Terry Gross interviewed a quite incredible couple today on her Fresh Air show. Kayla Williams and Brian McGough met in…
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The Timid Marine — a WW II Memoir
30 Dec 2013Joseph Lanciotti was a fifteen year old, setting pins in the local bowling alley of Lodi, New Jersey on Sunday,…
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The Forge: Spain in the Second Decade of the 20th
18 Oct 2013The Forge by Arturo Barea has been on my Read-Next shelf for decades. I spent a very fruitful year in…
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“Night” by Elie Wiesel — Re-Reading
20 Jan 2012I’ve been re-reading Eli Wiesel’s ground breaking, terrible, memoir, Night, this last week, along with a niece in 9th grade,…
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The Devil You Don’t Know: Going Back to Iraq — Zuhair Al-Jezairy
09 Jun 2011Iraq is, in the words of Zuhair al-Jezairy in The Devil You Don’t Know, his memoir/reportage of returning there after 25…
